Measuring and certifying representation. The number of union contributions businesses pay to the trade unions, mandated by the workers, and the results of the elections for unitary trade union representation bodies are the two pieces of information used to measure unions’ representativeness in order to negotiate national sectoral agreements. The agreement regulates the modalities for employers to sending the mandates received to the National Social Welfare Institution (Inps), which will, each year, gather them for each CCN and send them to the National Council for Economics and Labor (CNEL). A “Provincial Guarantor Committee” will gather information concerning operating RSUs on July 31 each year, for each sectoral union organization, and will send it to the CNEL that will calculate representation rates for each CCN and each union, doing a simple average between the rate of members over the total number of union members and the percentage of votes in the RSU elections (every 3 years) for the total number of voters.
Italy: Confindustria and the CGIL, Cisl and Uil unions reach agreement on “Single Representation Text”
On January 10, CGIL, Cisl, Uil and employers reached an agreement on the “Single Representation Text,” which regulates certification and the forms of union representation, the validation and scope of national and company agreements, and introduces sanctions for unions and employers violating these commitments. It consolidates and completes the interconfederal agreements on union democracy and representation signed on June 28, 2011 and May 31, 2013, which aimed to improve union representativeness and the validity of the agreements signed. Independent unions – still excluded from this representation – announced “tough opposition.”
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